Veritone, Inc. unveiled Veritone Tracker, a new AI-powered tracking solution that leverages confidence-based similarity detection to track people and objects through video recognition software. Veritone Tracker provides the unbiased insights needed to assess the visual description of a person of interest in a scene, what they are doing and the context of others in the scene, without performing facial recognition or other biometric identification that would reveal a person's identity. The new application was created using Veritone's aiWARE and AI domain knowledge of evidence lifecycle management, as well as technology from the August acquisition of London-based Vision Semantics Ltd. (VSL), a leading computer vision technology company focused on AI-powered video analytics and surveillance software solutions.

The VSL portfolio of patents includes nine international patent families and 34 underlying patents. The combined technology will enhance the company's existing aiWARE-based applications in the public safety and commercial enterprise markets. VSL was founded by Professor Sean Gong as a spin-off from Queen Mary University of London'sComputer Vision Group, with a mission to build world-class software based on Gong's research on computer vision and machine learning, and a focus on video analysis and action and object recognition.

VSL has been internationally recognized for its Person Re-identification (RE-ID) solution, a privacy-preserving computer vision technology for public safety and security applications. Person RE-ID is the mechanism to find a person at different locations over different times in a vast quantity of video data collected from distributed cameras. It's unique because it doesn't use private data, facial imagery features or other commonly employed person-specific biometrics.